Design- Time Optimization of Reconfigurable PV Architectures for Irregular Surfaces

摘要: Compared to flat PV arrays, cells on curved surfaces such as vehicles, wearable devices and building rooftops have varying inclination angles therefore, non-uniform operating conditions. Dynamic reconfiguration techniques used for tackling partial shading effects can also be deployed conditions surfaces. However, designing a reconfigurable system irregular is significantly different because the placement of switches should account curvature, not just random patterns. In this paper, we propose designtime framework identifying optimal switch sets well dynamic algorithm array given surface. Case studies performed show that our proposed technique reduces number by 83% while still generating 81% power compared having all atomic units. While cost reduction due reduced marginal in most applications panel dominates total cost, helps reducing wiring harness required switches, which burden manufacturing.